On my Two Beams House project, I set up some camera rigs using Sequencer (the latest huge feature of UE4 used for cinematics). Being able to walk around, feeling immersed into your own design is simply fantastic. Your project is so much more alive when it is not static. Epic Games have made so much improvements concerning arch viz (thanks to the community) that it quickly became very famous among artists.

You can quickly visualize your product and that is very important. It’s funny, because I used to play Unreal Tournament 99 and now, I’m finding myself using the game engine which I used to play on for the professional purpose!Īnyway, the reason I chose Unreal Engine is firstly the visual aspect of it. I find that game engines have come so far in terms of rendering that we need to use these technologies for other purposes rather than just games. It exports every asset keeping the position you had in 3DS Max. Some more complex assets tend not to get good results with steamroller, so you need to do it manually.įinally, before exporting everything, a useful tool that I use is TS_Tools from Tom Shannon. Then, there is this part where you need to unwrap all of your Static Meshes, and that is probably the part where I go and take some coffee…It can be very tedious.Īll of the assets need to be flatten mapped, so that Unreal can read it to project the lightmap.įortunately there are some excellent tools that speed up the process of having to manually unwrap the models such as steamroller. I personally name my assets SM_”name of object” to keep things organized inside UE4. I learned that it is very important to be organized in these projects. I then rename every asset so that I don’t get lost when I export everything to Unreal. Like many archviz people, I have a library of archmodels. I usually build the walls with 3DS Max, import some models if needed (Plants, Chairs etc.).

3ds max visualization